Ride Machete Wide Snowboard 2013

No one’s gonna get in your way when you chop your path through the park with the Ride Machete Wide Snowboard. This freestyle twin gives you an edge with Ride’s versatile LowRize™ rocker profile for smooth edge control with power. Features Pop Rods® 1.0 for pop, Slimewalls® for smoothness, and Cleave Edge™ for durability.

Rocker Type

LowRize™ Rocker - A twin rockered shape that lifts the contact points just above the snow and has a nearly flat zone under foot.

Thin Con Construction - Features a tapered tip and tail to reduce swing weight, enhanced tip flex, and sidewalls that run past the effective edge.

Sidecut

Twin

Core

Pop Rods® 1.0 - Adds the energy of carbon to your riding by using strategic placement in the boards tip and tail. Made up of flat carbon rods.

Laminates

Biaxial Glass - Designed with 90° and 0° angles for a fun and forgiving ride.

Sidewalls

Slimewalls® - These skate-inspired urethane sidewalls are forgiving and ductile, absorbing impact when it occurs. The urethane gives you smooth interaction with the snow, wood, or metal surfaces. To top it off, Slimewalls® are practically indestructible.

Base

Fusion 4000 Base™ - This is a sintered base, making it more durable, harder, and faster than an extruded base. It is the fastest snowboard base material known.

Edges

Cleave Edge™ - Nearly 50% more steel delivers unmatched resistance to edge cracking and can be detuned to larger radii.

Additional Features

Carbon Array 3™ - This power distribution technology provides total board control in every stance location. Widespread carbon stringers placed at the binding zone gather input from any stance width and all pressure angles. Rider input is then channeled to the opposing contact point for maximum board control.

Binding Compatibility

2 x 4 Inserts

Specs

Terrain:All-Mountain, Freestyle

All-Mountain

All-mountain snowboards are designed for exploring the whole mountain. They are your go-to for a snowboard that will do anything. They feel at home on groomers, powder, park runs and almost anything in between. The vast majority of snowboarders choose all-mountain boards for their great versatility. If you’re just getting started or unsure of exactly what you need, an all-mountain snowboard is a great choice.

Freestyle

Freestyle or park snowboards tend to be a bit shorter in length and love terrain parks, rails, jibs, trash cans, tree trunks, riding switch (non-dominant foot forward), wall rides and more. Freestyle boards often feature a true twin shape, and are typically selected by those looking to ride the terrain park. A more versatile variant of a freestyle board is the all-mountain freestyle, which combines the versatility of an all mountain snowboard with the playfulness of a freestyle snowboard.

Ability Level:Intermediate-Advanced

Intermediate-Advanced

The majority of skiers/snowboarders fall into this level, whether you like to carve on groomers or venture into the powder. These skis/snowboards may be somewhat wider than beginner-intermediate skis, usually with a stronger wood core and sandwich sidewall construction. Depending on the type of ski, intermediate-advanced level skis may have full camber, rocker, or some combination of the two.

Rocker Type:Rocker/Flat/Rocker

Rocker/Flat/Rocker

Rocker/Flat/Rocker is another variation on the rocker theme that seeks to provide a little more hard snow edgehold and pop than full rocker while retaining ease of turning and float. Performance is between a fully rockered board and a flat board.

Shape:True Twin

Flex Rating:Medium

Medium

The amount a snowboard flexes varies significantly between boards. Snowboard flex ratings are not necessarily standardized across manufacturers, so the flex may vary from brand to brand. Many manufacturers will give a number rating ranging from 1-10, 1 being softest and 10 being stiffest. Here at evo we have standardized the manufacturers' number ratings to a feel rating ranging from soft to very stiff. Generally you will find flex ratings of 1-2 as soft, 3-5 as medium, 6-8 as stiff, and 9-10 as very stiff. Flex ratings and feel may ultimately vary from snowboard to snowboard.

Having recently purchased this board, I can simply say I am extremely happy with the purchase. I was originally riding a Burton Bullet which i loved, but i wanted a board that was in between the float of a rocker board and the aggression of a camber board, hence where the Ride Machete comes in.

I ride this board with Ride Capo bindings. I've only been out a few times since I purchased this board, but so far I love the combination, especially after getting them on clearance. I'm still tweaking the binding set up, but can already tell that I'm going to love this board.

Bought the board for my son as a gift. Knew the machete board but was uncertain about size so I called and had all questions answered in minutes by competent salesman. Very easy purchase, very good price, very good product. Thanks EVO.

After much waiting, finally took my machete out for the first time. I'm coming off a K2 Viper 163w and the difference was night and day. The machete is much more playful. It was what I wanted in a board since I plan to hit more park features this season. All around great board. Felt real stable bombing down the mountain.